4/2/10

Living Room - Work in Progress

In an earlier post, I talked about my living room and showed some pictures of how it looked before we started renovating it. The living room was the first room we actually finished in our new house and when looking back at pictures, it was a huge improvement. Although I’m not sure how when looking at the pictures you could have made it look any worse.

My husband did a really beautiful design on the ceiling and put up crown molding. He also built a mantel around the existing fireplace that I think really makes the fireplace stand out. We cleaned up the original hardwood floors, they are throughout the house. We thought that we might have to do some work on them, but the only ones that need to be sanded down and redone are the ones on the second floor.

We lived in the two bedrooms on the main floor for a few months after we moved in. One of them we used for our bedroom and the other as our living room. It was really cramped. We gutted the kitchen before we moved in, so we had a utility sink set up and a refrigerator. We ate microwave dinners and fast food the whole time. We had plastic up around the shower in the bathroom and the toilet wasn’t secure to the floor.
When we actually got one room done, which happened to be the living room, it was the most amazing feeling. The feeling was short lived because we had to start working on the rest of the house. We moved the living room furniture out of the bedroom and started working on that bedroom next. I will show you before and afters of the downstairs bedrooms in the near future. For now, I am posting the living room as a work in progress. Please bare with me in the fact that the pictures are not of the best quality.

Below: Living room ceiling after we tore it
down.

Above: Living room wall that had all of the
water damage from the before pictures.

To the left and to the right are pictures of the ceiling being put up.

About Me

Mother, Wife, Flea Market Finder, Creater, Sewing Enthusiast, Estate Auction Buyer, Baker, Art Class Student, Sewing Teacher, Shopper.
I am a stay at home mom to one little princess. I live with my husband, daughter, and pooch in Jefferson City, Missouri. My husband and I love to renovate homes and are working on our biggest project to date. My daughter and I love to hang out and work on arts and craft projects.